USA Network‘s The Rainmaker has added P.J. Byrne (Babylon, Wolf of Wallstreet) to its series regular cast alongside John Slattery, Milo Callaghan, Lana Parrilla and Madison Iseman.
From showrunner and executive producer Michael Seitzman and based on the John Grisham novel of the same name, The Rainmaker follows Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) who, fresh out of law school, goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond (John Slattery) and his law school girlfriend Sarah Plankmore (Madison Iseman). Rudy, along with his boss (Lana Parrilla) and her disheveled paralegal, uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client’s son.
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Byrne will star as Deck Shifflet, a no-filter, shoot-from-the-hip law school grad who failed the bar seven times. He now operates as an unsentimental “paralawyer” at J. Lyman Stone.
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In the 1997 film The Rainmaker from director Francis Ford Coppola, Deck was famously portrayed by Danny DeVito.
The Rainmaker received a series order by the NBCUniversal cable network in June, capping a six-year journey by Seitzman to bring the book to TV. Seitzman and Jason Richman wrote the pilot script, with Seitzman serving as showrunner on the series. The two are executive producing with Grisham, Jason Blum and David Gernert.
Byrne currently stars in The Big Cigar for Apple TV+ and two superhero titles from Prime Video: The Boys and its spinoff series Gen V. His TV credits also include Peacock’s Irreverent, Ghosts for CBS, the CW’s Black Lightning and HBO’s Big Little Lies.
On the film side, his resume includes Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street and Babylon. He will next be seen in A Complete Unknown by James Mangold, opposite Timothée Chalamet and Edward Norton; Neighbors opposite Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, Riff Raff opposite Bill Murray, and Bobby Farrelly’s Dear Santa opposite Jack Black and Keegan-Michael Key.
Byrne is represented by Greene Talent, Mosaic and attorney Isaac Dunham.